Memealicious 5×5

April 20, 2008

So katm of Finding the Light in the Darkness tagged me with a meme. (Thanks!) Five topics. Five responses. Twenty-five flavourful answers.

5 Things Found In Your Bag

I don’t carry a bag of any kind around with me these days. So This is going to be five things found in my pocketses instead.

  • My phone. It’s a couple of years old and a bit battered, but aside from the occasional crash and a mildly reduced battery life, it still works like a charm.
  • Way too much spare change.
  • A wallet, which itself contains various forms of ID and card and generally not much money.
  • An mp3 player. This is a SanDisk Sansa Express.
  • A bottle that claims to be Volvic, but in fact contains tap water. Going to therapy and trying to talk for an hour while taking Seroquel (which gives me way worse dry mouth than smoking weed ever did) makes this a necessity.

5 Favorite Things In Your Room

  • My computer. Duh.
  • My hi-fi, which I’ve now owned for just over 11 years.
  • My microwave, which is way better than the crappy counter-top cooker that was provided with this place.
  • My heater, which I got last year and means that I no longer freeze due to the lack of central heating.
  • The pile of books at the bottom of the bed, which I do still occasionally read. (This week’s selection: Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman)

5 Things You Have Always Wanted To Do

  • Discover a new species.
  • Meet Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin.
  • Write the definitive guide to illegal drugs.
  • Write my own music creation software.
  • Learn to speak Russian

5 Things You Are Currently Into

5 People You Want To Tag

(Mortal offense will not be taken if any of the following people don’t feel like doing this, consider it an invite, not a demand.)

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7 Comments Add your own

  • 1. katm  |  April 20, 2008 at 2:31 am

    Thanks for playing :)

    Nice choice of current reading material. I read it last summer and throughly enjoyed it.

    I need to get a subscription to metafilter. I’ve been reading it for about a year now and I really enjoy it. I’ve just been too lazy to get a paypal account set up.

    And oh dear god. I remember the Seroquel dry mouth. I bought bags and bags of sugar free hard candy because if I drank enough water to keep my mouth moist, I’d be pissing every 30 minutes.

  • 2. experimental chimp  |  April 20, 2008 at 3:00 am

    I’ve read it a couple of times before. I keep meaning to get the sequel Why Do You Care What Other People Think.

    I’ve just joinded MeFi. Exchange rates being what they are, it’s stupidly cheap for me. Of course, since I keep buying stuff from the US, this argument is getting less and less believable…

    I’m currently saying goodbye to Seroquel, so my dry mouth is getting less so. I’m switching to lamotrigine, which only rarely causes dry mouth, but will (apparently) give me headaches, dizziness and insomnia. And just possibly a potentially fatal rash. Still, at least I won’t have to carry a bottle of water everywhere…

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  • 6. Gabriel...  |  April 21, 2008 at 10:47 pm

    Feynman’s an interesting guy… I think the next time I get to a bookstore I’ll try to find “What Do You Care What Other People Think?”, his book on the Challenger disaster.

    As far as I know I’m not getting the dry mouth from Seroquel… I snore like a coal-fed train so my mouth is pretty pasty in the morning so maybe the dry mouth is hidden.

  • 7. experimental chimp  |  April 23, 2008 at 11:58 pm

    Gabriel: The worst thing about seroquel was the way it’d hit me with complete nasal congestion within an hour or two of taking it. Which meant breathing through my mouth in order to get to sleep (or to stay asleep, I guess). So that probably contributed.

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